Charlie Sheen[2], whose personal demons and professional blowups are well known, refuses to articulate the autobiographical link between himself and “Charlie Goodson,” his character on “Anger Management.”

In his TCA appearance Saturday, Sheen shifted in his chair and dodged questions about the obvious similarities.

How is he coping these days? “I don’t want to bore anybody with details… It was a crazy time, like a dream I couldn’t wake up from, like a runaway train I couldn’t get off of. I learned, stick to what you know. I learned don’t go on a one-man tour of 23 cities with no act.”

In a clip from an upcoming episode on the FX comedy, Sheen’s father Martin Sheen plays his character’s dad. The father character begs his son to try his form of therapy…at a bar. “He brings a whole different energy to it. It’s not Martinville and it’s certainly not Charlieville anymore.”

Sheen, in plaid shorts, steered clear of the topic of his personal therapy, letting executive producer Bruce Helford express the point: “it’s a show about a guy still overcoming demons.” He took pains, when describing the Jekyll/Hyde character, to note he was talking about Charlie Goodson, not Charlie Sheen.

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